One final question for my Macbook breh experts (and illadope)

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

So yeah, for those that don't know I came up on a macbook pro. didn't jack it, someone lost it and I came up after they didn't claim it for a month. So I went though the process of making it mine without it getting traced back to me.

So as it stands I upgraded the HD with one I already had and I reinstalled Mountain Lion.

Here's the rub

When I reinstalled on the new HD using disk utilities which means I was connected to wifi for 57 minutes (even though I had a brand new blank HD connected.) I tried to install using a usb but there were too many obstacles. I also reset the RAM by holding option-command-R-P before I connecting to wi-fi.


So my question is, I'm I good to go?

1. since I did a reinstall I didn't have to pay for it, and when I checked my partitions I see that I have a recovery partition? Is that normal or is that from the previous owner? (I never did a restore)

2. Assuming the previous owner still has settings that downloaded as long as I don't turn on find my mac am I good to go connecting to a network?

3. Any tracking software in the memory would've been deleted once I reset the ram correct?


As a final precaution I was going to download a new copy of mountain lion from the apple store and do a new reinstall. Do I have to?


Ok.. so that was more than one question..

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

???

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

come on breh's i've put time and money into this. I'm just sitting on this thing with no internet usage Is the coast clear?

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

So yeah, for those that don't know I came up on a macbook pro. didn't jack it, someone lost it and I came up after they didn't claim it for a month. So I went though the process of making it mine without it getting traced back to me.

So as it stands I upgraded the HD with one I already had and I reinstalled Mountain Lion.

Here's the rub

When I reinstalled on the new HD using disk utilities which means I was connected to wifi for 57 minutes (even though I had a brand new blank HD connected.) I tried to install using a usb but there were too many obstacles. I also reset the RAM by holding option-command-R-P before I connecting to wi-fi.


So my question is, I'm I good to go?

1. since I did a reinstall I didn't have to pay for it, and when I checked my partitions I see that I have a recovery partition? Is that normal or is that from the previous owner? (I never did a restore)

2. Assuming the previous owner still has settings that downloaded as long as I don't turn on find my mac am I good to go connecting to a network?

3. Any tracking software in the memory would've been deleted once I reset the ram correct?


As a final precaution I was going to download a new copy of mountain lion from the apple store and do a new reinstall. Do I have to?


Ok.. so that was more than one question..

 

[heisenburrr]

the recovery partition is normal

 

[heisenburrr]

if this guy was stupid enough to forget his macbook somewhere and not claim it, i would seriously doubt the presence of tracking softwares on the computer

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

if this guy was stupid enough to forget his macbook somewhere and not claim it, i would seriously doubt the presence of tracking softwares on the computer

and the login information was taped to it. So I initially just logged in I saw the person used icloud from checking their itunes. This person worked for a university so it could be a computer school though. I doubt they would put something like lojack on it but you never know. All i'm worried about now is find my mac.

I can sell this now as is and get 700 to 900 easy but I don't need the money so I would rather keep it.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

I think i'm gonna just delete the recovery partition.

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

I really shouldn't be telling you this because your story is shady...

It doesn't matter how many times you wipe the hd it can easily be traced...

Macbooks are all built with tracking chips attached to the mb which cannot be disabled and always "phone home"...

All the owner has to do is report it stolen to the police with the serial number and they will track it down with Apples assistance...

 

[Tom Foolery]

^^^^
I wasn't going to tell him this, but yeah Every mac has a serial number. And it sounds like he registered it.

Still doesn't mean you will be tracked.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

I really shouldn't be telling you this because your story is shady...

It doesn't matter how many times you wipe the hd it can easily be traced...

Macbooks are all built with tracking chips attached to the mb which cannot be disabled and always "phone home"...

All the owner has to do is report it stolen to the police with the serial number and they will track it down with Apples assistance...

you expect me to believe that? I've put in about 15 man hours researching nothing but this topic and didn't find shyt about this. I logged in to the admin and user accounts and didn't see anything that said "property of" and it didn't have anything on the device that said "property of" so I highly doubt this came from an IT department. Find My Mac is the only service that uses tracking software but 1. it has to be activated on the device in order to work.

- I took out the old hard drive and installed a new one.
- I reinstalled the OS, bought another copy wiped the new hard drive and did a clean install from the usb drive i created.
- I also reset the RAM which should've taken out any other settings. That "chip" still needs some type of software to activate it and even if it was saved on a hidden partition, I replaced the hard drive all together. It was lost so I doubt the person would report it stolen.

So unless there is software or settings on the ram that can't be reset, I'm calling bullshyt.

 

[el_oh_el]

you expect me to believe that? I've put in about 15 man hours researching nothing but this topic and didn't find shyt about this. I logged in to the admin and user accounts and didn't see anything that said "property of" and it didn't have anything on the device that said "property of" so I highly doubt this came from an IT department. Find My Mac is the only service that uses tracking software but 1. it has to be activated on the device in order to work.

- I took out the old hard drive and installed a new one.
- I reinstalled the OS, bought another copy wiped the new hard drive and did a clean install from the usb drive i created.
- I also reset the RAM which should've taken out any other settings. That "chip" still needs some type of hardware to activate it and even if it was saved on a hidden partition, I replaced the hard drive all together. It was lost so I doubt the person would report it stolen.

So unless there is software or settings on the ram that can't be reset, I'm calling bullshyt.

That story was fluff. Id use it. Resetting the ram does nothing, as when the computer is powered off, it loses all data anyway.

 

[Czerka]

smfh

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

That story was fluff. Id use it. Resetting the ram does nothing, as when the computer is powered off, it loses all data anyway.

Lojack says their software is tamper proof and that it will work even after you replace the hard drive and install a new operating system I'm thinking its hides in the bios?????? my wifi has been exposed twice for about 2 hours total. I'm going to figure how out to detect processes running in the background. Lojack say's it hides in the background but that's bullshyt. You can find it but the average person doesn't know where to look. That software/service is basically a damn trojan. Either way I doubt they bought that. I mean I knew nothing about macs and they didn't even activate the firmware password.

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

you expect me to believe that? I've put in about 15 man hours researching nothing but this topic and didn't find shyt about this. I logged in to the admin and user accounts and didn't see anything that said "property of" and it didn't have anything on the device that said "property of" so I highly doubt this came from an IT department. Find My Mac is the only service that uses tracking software but 1. it has to be activated on the device in order to work.

- I took out the old hard drive and installed a new one.
- I reinstalled the OS, bought another copy wiped the new hard drive and did a clean install from the usb drive i created.
- I also reset the RAM which should've taken out any other settings. That "chip" still needs some type of software to activate it and even if it was saved on a hidden partition, I replaced the hard drive all together. It was lost so I doubt the person would report it stolen.

So unless there is software or settings on the ram that can't be reset, I'm calling bullshyt.

I could careless if you believe me or not son...

It's not my macbook you stole...

I just hope that dude is smart enough to report it so I can laugh at another dumb Apple thief gets busted story...